Alejandro Mayorga

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Alejandro Mayorga
Personal information
Full name Manuel Alejandro Mayorga Almaraz [1]
Date of birth (1997-05-29) 29 May 1997 (age 27) [1]
Place of birth Durango, Mexico
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) [1]
Position(s) Left-back
Team information
Current team
 Necaxa
Number 5
Youth career
2011–2017 Guadalajara
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2017–2023 Guadalajara 68 (7)
2018 → Necaxa (loan) 11 (0)
2019–2020 → UNAM (loan) 31 (2)
2022 → Cruz Azul (loan) 23 (0)
2024– Necaxa 0 (0)
International career‡
2015 Mexico U18 2 (0)
2017 Mexico U20 6 (0)
2021 Mexico U23 5 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 October 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 8 June 2021

Manuel Alejandro Mayorga Almaraz (born 29 May 1997) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Liga MX club Necaxa.

Contents

Club career

Mayorga joined C.D. Guadalajara's youth academy in 2011. He made his Liga MX debut under manager Matías Almeyda on 5 August 2017 in a 2–2 draw against Club Necaxa. [2]

Making three appearances and scoring one goal in the 2018 CONCACAF Champions League in which Guadalajara won, [3] he was included in the tournament's Best XI. [4]

In June 2018, he joined Necaxa on loan for the 2018 Apertura. [5]

In December 2019, he joined Club Universidad Nacional on loan for 2020. [6] On 12 January 2020, he made his debut against C.F. Pachuca in a 2–1 win. On 30 August, he scored his first goal with the team against Club Tijuana in a 3–0 victory. [7] Following an impressive Guardianes 2020 performance in which Pumas U.N.A.M. managed to reach the championship final, Mayorga returned to Guadalajara. [8]

International career

Youth

Mayorga was called up by Marco Antonio Ruiz for the 2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship. [9] Mayorga started in all of the national team's matches in the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup in South Korea.

Mayorga participated at the 2020 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship, appearing in four matches, where Mexico won the competition. [10]

Senior

Mayorga and Edson Álvarez were given the opportunity by Juan Carlos Osorio to be supporting practice squad players with the senior national team that participated at the 2017 Confederations Cup. [11] At the conclusion of the tournament, he got his first call up to the senior national side in the preliminary list for the subsequent Gold Cup, all before his Liga MX debut. [12] He eventually made it to the official 23-man list.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 1 October 2023 [13]
ClubSeasonLeagueCupContinentalOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Guadalajara 2017–18 Liga MX 40403 [lower-alpha 1] 1—111
2018–19 3040——70
2019–20 4021——61
2020–21 102———102
2021–22 142———142
2022–23 131———131
2023–24 70———70
Total55510131—687
Necaxa (loan) 2018–19 Liga MX11030——140
UNAM (loan) 2019–20 Liga MX10021——121
2020–21 191———191
Total29121——312
Cruz Azul (loan) 2021–22 Liga MX140—3 [lower-alpha 1] 01 [lower-alpha 2] 0180
2022–23 50———50
Total190—3010230
Career total114615261101369

Honours

Guadalajara

Necaxa

Cruz Azul

Mexico U23

Individual

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References

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  2. ↑ "Conoce a… Alejandro Mayorga". chivasdecorazon.com.mx. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Chivas Win CONCACAF Champions League". BeinSport.com. April 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ "2018 SCCL - Best XI". CONCACAF. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Alex Mayorga a préstamo con Necaxa". Nación Deportes (in Spanish). June 6, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Pumas acquire Alejandro Mayorga from Chivas". FMFStateOfMind.com. December 21, 2019.
  7. ↑ Carrara, Germán (December 21, 2020). "Alejandro Mayorga se despidió de Pumas con un sentido mensaje para la afición". DalePumas.BolaVIP.com (in Spanish).
  8. ↑ "Alejandro Mayorga regresa a Chivas". Goal.com (in Spanish). December 20, 2020.
  9. ↑ "Convocatoria de la Selección Nacional de México Sub-20". Miseleccion.mx. FMF. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
  10. ↑ "México derrotó a Honduras en penales y se alzó como campeón de Concacaf rumbo a Tokio". Infobae. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Edson Álvarez y Alejandro Mayorga, 'invitados' de Osorio a Confederaciones". mediotiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  12. ↑ "Convocatoria preliminar para Copa Oro 2017". miseleccion.mx. June 7, 2017. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  13. ↑ Alejandro Mayorga at Soccerway
  14. ↑ Martínez, Alejandro (July 15, 2018). "Necaxa campeón de la Super Copa MX 2018 ante Monterrey". AS (in Spanish).
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